Weekend Recap + The Best Year-End Sales

Weekend Recap + The Best Year-End Sales

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas weekend! Today I’m sharing our Christmas weekend recap, and at the end of the post, I’m sharing some of the best year-end sales that are currently going on!
Our week started out a bit rough when one of our tenants called to let us know their oven/stove stopped working. Why do these things always happen right before a holiday, right"! In the nine months we’ve owned that unit now, we’ve had to replace the oven/stove, the dishwasher, the furnace, the water heater and the roof. Plus we’ve had to have maintenance over on five other instances. We’re hoping 2018 is a fresh start over there!
Anyways, while I was at Lowe’s picking out the oven/stove, I saw this cute display kitchen. I was immediate drawn in by the quartz countertops.

It reminded me of a warmer Carrara marble look (maybe more like Calacatta marble") but is obviously quartz. We’ve been talking again about doing our countertops in our kitchen and so I mentally added this one to the list of possibilities. It was really pretty in person and I thought it was worth sharing if anyone else out there is on the list for a marble alternative!

Kurtis was in Maine Tuesday thru Thursday for a Christmas party with his team there. So, for the first time in my adult life (or ever) I binge-watched some Hallmark-style Christmas movies on Netflix. So out of the norm for me, but it was pretty glorious.
Friday afternoon we officially kicked off our weekend. We really tried to make an effort to disconnect digitally and leave our smart phones down. So, we played some rounds of Trivial Pursuit and Sequence.We also watched some movies and spent some time with the cats before we had to head out Saturday morning to Iowa.

Once we got to Iowa on Saturday I bee lined it to little Sasha. She’s seriously the spunkiest, funniest kitten and is always so fun to play with.

That afternoon, I had to finish my niece Katie’s graduation photos. She wanted a few with her dog and horse at their house, so we spent as long as we could taking a few more shots. It was a brisk 17 degrees out though, so we had to make it quick! We got in 347 photos. And although probably 300 looked like the one below, there are definitely a few keepers too! Braxton was much more interested in running around the field like a wild man than posing to get his photo taken

Saturday night was church at Kurtis’ hometown church. Their congregation shares a pastor because they are so small, so this was technically their Christmas Eve service. I always love their sanctuary. It looked even prettier when all the Christmas lights were on and the candles were lit but it’s such a cute sanctuary!

One of my favorite outfits of the weekend is one I shared on my Instagram stories, but didn’t get an actually photo of. This sweater is my near all-time favorite and paired with these fleece leggings (where have they been all my life"!)...

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